Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radiation treatment continues for three to five days. While she may be uncomfortable, the patient experiences little pain and negligible scarring. Sometimes the breast and lymph nodes are bombarded by external radiation as well; the patient may also receive anticancer drugs to destroy malignant cells elsewhere in the body...
...wide-eyed group of unmistakable Government majors. Each one would politely ask a question, allow McCarthy two or three seconds to say two or three words, then proceed to explain to the former Senator why he, the Gov major, was right and McCarthy was wrong. McCarthy was patient. He continued to express himself in soft, subdued tones. I'm not sure anybody was listening...
...teaching hospitals have recorded about 1000 such incidents a month for the past year, but so far no patient has filed a malpractice suit, Pyle added...
...plan is a patchwork of medieval chivalry, Confederate rhetoric and shoot-'em-up justice. He will go away with the girl in the next room - a patient in the asylum who has been gang-raped into insensibility. In Lancelot's view, this outrage has purified her of every indulgence he hates in the modern world. Together they will be the new Adam and Eve, dedicated to "a stern code, a gentleness toward women and an intolerance of swinishness...
...served as a Peace Corps nurse a decade ago. "I can't wait to kiss everybody," she said on arrival. Old friends greeted her as Lily behn (our sister Lily), and schoolchildren sang, danced and even performed yoga exercises in her honor. At the dispensary, a former patient told her that his asthma was better. "Of course," teased Mrs. Carter. "I cured you." As she moved from one patient to another, she murmured, as if to herself: "I feel like an angel, but I know...